Sedimentary and crustal structure from the Ellesmere Island and Greenland continental shelves onto the Lomonosov Ridge, Arctic Ocean

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 182, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 11-35

  Jackson, H Ruth ^a   Dahl Jensen, Trine ^b   Chian, Deping ^c   Shimeld, John ^c   Funck, Thomas ^c   Asudeh, Isa ^c   Snyder, Dave ^c  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Arctic region; Continental margins: divergent; Controlled source seismology; Hotspots; Large igneous provinces; Oceanic plateaus and microcontinents

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRIC SURVEY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINENTAL SHELF; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EXPLOSIVE; GEOPHONE; HOT SPOT; INVERSE ANALYSIS; MESOZOIC; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CRUST; P-WAVE; PALEOZOIC; PASSIVE MARGIN; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; SEISMIC DISCRIMINATION; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SUBMARINE PLATEAU; UNCONFORMITY; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; CANADA; ELLESMERE ISLAND; GREENLAND; LOMONOSOV RIDGE; NUNAVUT; QUEEN ELIZABETH ISLANDS;

EID: 77954643048     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04604.x     Document Type: Article

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